pooflady

FenStar wrote:I mwant to mail them out last weekend, but I put off getting the photos printed till it was to late to send them. They Should go out this weekend. It isn't even thanksgiving yet though so...

Yes, I'm ok. Just busy.

It is early, I just thought because you said you were sending them...
Mine don't usually go out until at least the second or third week of December.

Edit: Are you home for the week or did you stay on campus to help decorate the gingerbread houses?

Oftentimes, I even get a little message. I haven't heard from her for a little while now. Anyone know what might be going on? Hope everything is okay. :worried:

It's funny how little electronic doo-dads have become analogous for signs of life. It's like a parent turning to the other and saying: "I don't hear the baby breathing anymore! Go check to see if everything is OK!"

selli

KtCallista wrote:Ohh, I wish I could let myself do that, I choose. It may be a female thing. . .

I have to admit, before we started doing the photo card I would sometimes have to buy (at most) 2 types of cards. It's pretty easy to sort people into "close family and friends" and "acquaintances" and give the "better" card to the first group. But it's much easier to just have one card and send the same thing to everyone.

AZGman

krapposelli wrote:I have to admit, before we started doing the photo card I would sometimes have to buy (at most) 2 types of cards. It's pretty easy to sort people into "close family and friends" and "acquaintances" and give the "better" card to the first group. But it's much easier to just have one card and send the same thing to everyone.

selli

We do the photo card - and if you think about how much time it takes to find a time when the kids might be most obliged to be helpful, clean the kids up, dress them up, clean the house enough for it to be photo-worthy, take a gazillion pictures to try to get a good one - and in a different setting/pose than previous years, deal with the sibling rivalry and fighting and bickering and the resulting escalating parental tempers and on and on, you'd understand how much thought and effort went into that one card. Some years we were lucky to get one out at all.

pooflady

Mothers, kids, grandkids, goddaughter, sister and nephews get "special" cards. Everyone else, the same thing. Although the kids may be dropped after this year, because we're not getting "special" cards from them.

pooflady

We do the photo card - and if you think about how much time it takes to find a time when the kids might be most obliged to be helpful, clean the kids up, dress them up, clean the house enough for it to be photo-worthy, take a gazillion pictures to try to get a good one - and in a different setting/pose than previous years, deal with the sibling rivalry and fighting and bickering and the resulting escalating parental tempers and on and on, you'd understand how much thought and effort went into that one card. Some years we were lucky to get one out at all.

D-i-l takes her photo card during or immediately after the first good snowfall so they're outside in jackets and hats and don't have to be made "presentable". And they're usually pretty good.

AZGman

We do the photo card - and if you think about how much time it takes to find a time when the kids might be most obliged to be helpful, clean the kids up, dress them up, clean the house enough for it to be photo-worthy, take a gazillion pictures to try to get a good one - and in a different setting/pose than previous years, deal with the sibling rivalry and fighting and bickering and the resulting escalating parental tempers and on and on, you'd understand how much thought and effort went into that one card. Some years we were lucky to get one out at all.

selli

pooflady wrote:D-i-l takes her photo card during or immediately after the first good snowfall so they're outside in jackets and hats and don't have to be made "presentable". And they're usually pretty good.

Hmmm... that's a thought. I tried to get a few shots while we were at Disney this summer but it was so stinking hot the kids both looked like they were melting in the pictures so that didn't work out.

AZGman

pooflady wrote:D-i-l takes her photo card during or immediately after the first good snowfall so they're outside in jackets and hats and don't have to be made "presentable". And they're usually pretty good.

Great idea - especially if you can get a friend to take pics so the whole family is in the shot.

dontwantaname

gwp wrote: It's funny how little electronic doo-dads have become analogous for signs of life. It's like a parent turning to the other and saying: "I don't hear the baby breathing anymore! Go check to see if everything is OK!"

Woot and IM are our warped little baby monitors. Wow.

L O L , it would surprise no one here if you found out that after only a few nights the baby was in our bed and stayed there!

No, I don't want all the missing wooters in my bed, just on my IM screen!

Oh, btw, we figured when the kid hit kindergarten and found out other kids slept in their own room , she would move out.
Well, guess what? In many, many parts of the world kids sleep in a family bed and it backfired on us!
Most of her friends were in the same room as the parents. Ugh
Thank goodness son never cared and slept in the crib with no problem.

WE LURV YOU TOO! Dork!!!
No greater love is lost than that not shared.

dontwantaname

Who does the really cool homemade card? Josephus?
I think it is him. I remember showing the picture of the card to my family (well not son, it is hard to get a teenage boy excited about a christmas card).

WE LURV YOU TOO! Dork!!!
No greater love is lost than that not shared.

FenStar

dontwantaname wrote:Who does the really cool homemade card? Josephus?
I think it is him. I remember showing the picture of the card to my family (well not son, it is hard to get a teenage boy excited about a christmas card).

dontwantaname

tennbeekeeper wrote:Off the tie subject, sadly, it is the time of the year that the lady bugs start finding some way into my house! How do you keep lady bugs out? I don't even know how they find a way in!

If you are going to have a bug in your house a lady bug has to be the best one!

Hi Tennabee!
Unless I was just insulted.

WE LURV YOU TOO! Dork!!!
No greater love is lost than that not shared.

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